I really think that ideally there should be two distinct permissions for the apps: Foreground Microphone: The app can only access the microphone when it is foreground, that would be sufficient for most apps. Background Microphone: That would be usefull for only a small minority of very trusted apps , like phone apps that may need to maintain a call while the phone is suspended. But it's very different to give the opportunity to spy on the microphone at any moment which is a critical permission, and to allow the app to use the microphone while on foreground which is what most app would need and is way less critical.

Ok, second time is the charm I switched USB cable (it was probably bad), ordered wiping user data and used 24.04-stable for flashing... Flashing worked the second time and now I'm on UT on my FP5

I just finished the french translation. If anyone would like to take a look... Merci!

I've put the logo on the french version of wikipedia, It can be reused for other languages: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch

@mihael I had another try after uninstalling and reinstalling uAdBlockNG and creating symlinks like this: root@ubuntu-phablet:/etc# ls -l hosts* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 26 16:49 hosts -> /home/phablet/Downloads/hosts [...] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 26 16:07 hosts.blocklist -> /home/phablet/Downloads/hosts.blocklist [...] and it worked out fine! I must have made a mistake before when creating the symlinks. Thanks for your help!

Status update: 'ratatoskr' source code has just been reviewed by @bhdouglass (OpenStore team), and two issues have been identified that should be resolved before allowing publication of the .click packages: https://github.com/petroniusniger/ratatoskr/issues/12 (new one) https://github.com/petroniusniger/ratatoskr/issues/6 (known issue) I'll work on resolving those 2 issues and release a v0.1.1 of the code before re-submitting it for publication.

I answer myself: Yes, one has to ask the Weblate administrators.

@paulcarroty witch UTC are you ? It is possible it comes elswehere...

@FlavioMala I don't think that the way the update is installed does any difference. As UT is a read-only filesystem, all system upgrades involve a replacement of the whole rootfs including the kernel. If the kernel has been upgraded at some point in the daily channel for 24.04-1.x, the change will be transferred (of course) in the 24.04.1.2RC and later stable. The FP5 linux kernel is not the same for 24.04-1.1 and 24.04-1.2 stable versions. The installer then can no longer install back 24.04.1.1 on a phone, that was the point of my post: you can't revert to the previous version whatever method you use, even with the installer. That you can't do it from the phone is a misfeature, even more so from the installer. I did not file an issue with the installer since there are already more than 2000 of them

@kugiigi Oh, I see. Yes, they had corrected that by the time I looked.

Nothing Phone 1 has landed in https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/spacewar/

@gpatel-fr Aha, so for audio codecs it is a question of the right flags and necessary libraries. I will amend my answer then.

@lduboeuf This has been my experience using a Oneplus N10. Since VoLTE landed, idle drain has seemed notably less pronounced. A very nice surprise, especially on a device with an aged battery.

Out of curiosity, since I managed to get Thunderbird to behave properly on a Fairphone 4... maybe it would be an idea to make a similar guide for Firefox web browser. Step 1: Installing Firefox inside a Libertine container For those of you newbies wondering how to get Firefox web browser working in desktop mode on Ubuntu Touch, this is one way that seems to work well. Firefox has so far crashed one time only. This markup was written in nano and mousepad. Copy-paste functionality between windows seems to be non-existent between Firefox and other windows at the time of writing. The only way to copy this markup was to cat markdown-text.md in a terminal and manually copy the lines from terminal with right-click copy, and paste it in this forum. I messed around with settings until I got something that would work in desktop mode for Fairphone 4 running channel 24.04/daily. Installing Firefox as DEB Install Libertine Tweak Tool from Openstore. Activate lirsh command with Libertine Tweak Tool. Open a terminal window and type: lirsh fakeroot At this point it is possible to issue terminal commands: install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- | tee /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc > /dev/null echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list > /dev/null echo ' Package: * Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org Pin-Priority: 1000 ' | tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla apt-get update # If you want to update the whole Libertine container apt-get upgrade --fix-missing apt-cache policy firefox apt-get install firefox exit # jump out of fakeroot firefox --version # To install a different language pack, execute: # lirsh apt-cache search firefox-l10n # to get the list of all available language packages. # # Install the language pack of your choice like: fakeroot apt-get install firefox-l10n-es-es # Spanish # or apt-get install firefox-l10n-de # German # or apt-get install firefox-l10n-fr # French exit # jump out of fakeroot You may now see Firefox in Ubuntu Touch main menu, or not. One way to trigger a main menu update is to create an update or a .desktop file in one of the catalogues that Ubuntu Touch is monitoring. Try these lines one at a time, to see if the launcher appears, in a fresh terminal tab: if [ -d /home/phablet/.local/share/icons/hicolor ]; then touch /home/phablet/.local/share/icons/hicolor else mkdir -p /home/phablet/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps wget -O /home/phablet/.local/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme https://github.com/matthewbauer/appstream-generator/raw/refs/heads/master/data/hicolor-theme-index.theme fi A minimal index.theme can also be made like this: cat <<EOF > /home/phablet/.local/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme [Icon Theme] Name=Hicolor Comment=Ubuntu Touch fallback icon theme Hidden=true Directories=scalable/apps [scalable/apps] MinSize=1 Size=128 MaxSize=256 Context=Applications Type=Scalable EOF If Firefox still does not show up in Ubuntu Touch main menu, you can try to make a change in folder /home/phablet/.local/share/applications: cp -v /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop /home/phablet/.local/share/applications/. sleep 3 rm -v /home/phablet/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop Try hitting the "Super-key" (sometimes this key has four windows left of the space bar) and type firef which should be enough to make Firefox launcher visible. Now you can test if terminal command launches something. # lirsh GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox On my Fairphone 4, the zoom factor is quite big. Let's try to lower the zoom. One way to lower the zoom is to edit Libertine container noble file ~/.Xdefaults and adjust Xft.dpi: 120 from default value Xft.dpi: 197. Exiting lirsh and re-entering lirsh should activate the new DPI setting. Then re-launch firefox from command line and see if the zoom factor is better. # lirsh GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox Now the window looks a bit better with not such a large zoom factor in desktop mode. The other way is to use a scaling factor directly before launching firefox. Try this and see if the zoom factor is lower with standard setting Xft.dpi: 197. # lirsh GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox Once the scaling is okay for your eyes you can create a firefox-launcher. # lirsh mkdir -p ~/.local/bin echo "GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox" > ~/.local/bin/firefox-launcher chmod +x ~/.local/bin/firefox-launcher On my Fairphone 4, Libertine container noble folder ~/.local/bin was not in my Libertine container variable $PATH: # lirsh echo $PATH Editing Libertine container noble file ~/.bashrc should do the trick. The full path is: /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/home/phablet/.bashrc You can edit this file both from outside the Libertine container noble as well as from inside the Libertine container. Added the following lines at the end of the Libertine container ~/.bashrc: if [ -d ~/.local/bin ]; then export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" fi if [ -d ~/bin ]; then export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fi Exiting lirsh and re-entering lirsh should activate the new setting. exit # jump out of lirsh lirsh echo $PATH firefox-launcher This command should open firefox inside lirsh with desired zoom. Step 2: Making a Firefox main menu item shortcut Poking around with the settings, you may discover that there are actually two ways to launch Firefox once it is installed. Launching Firefox from outside the Libertine container. This would require a separate launcher put in ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop. User settings will be stored outside the Libertine container. Launching from inside the Libertine container. This would require to edit the Libertine container's firefox.desktop file, which will sooner or later appear in Ubuntu Touch main menu. User settings will be stored inside the Libertine container. For the purpose of illustration, I will do both approaches. 2a: Making a firefox.desktop outside Libertine container It is not entierly clear to me what you have to do in order to trigger a main menu update after you have installed something in a Libertine container. Debian has a command update-menus which Ubuntu Touch does not have. Ususally, a reboot is the easiest way to update Ubuntu Touch main menu items. However, there should in theory be another way to refresh the main menu that is at this time unknown to me. Now that this is working, let's try to create an Ubuntu Touch shortcut in the main menu. This can be done manually of course. In this example, I will piggy-back on what is already available. Open another terminal tab (without lirsh environment). mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps wget -O ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/firefox.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Firefox_logo%2C_2019.svg wget -O ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spk121/hicolor-icon-theme/refs/heads/master/index.theme sed -i "s|^Comment=.*$|Comment=Ubuntu Touch Icon Theme|g" ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme echo "Update icon caches (maybe obsolete)" touch ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor update-icon-caches ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor # or touch ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor gtk-update-icon-cache ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor echo echo "We can re-use the firefox.desktop file that is in the Libertine container" cp -v /userdata/user-data/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop echo echo "Using scaling factor GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.2" echo "to achieve similar scaling as with" echo "Libertine container 'noble' GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6" sed -i "s|^Exec=.*$|Exec=bash -c \'GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.2 GDK_BACKEND=x11 /userdata/user-data/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/bin/firefox\' %u|g" ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop echo echo "Ubuntu Touch does not seem to find the firefox icon" echo "by itself." echo " Icon=firefox" echo "Icon has to be specified exactly with path to show in main menu." echo " Icon=/path/to/scalable/svg" sed -i "s|^Icon=.*$|Icon=/home/phablet/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/firefox.svg|g" ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop echo echo "Trigger main menu update" mv ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/tmp.desktop mv ~/.local/share/applications/tmp.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop echo echo "You should now see Firefox" echo "in Ubuntu Touch main menu." echo echo "Done." Now there should be a visible "Firefox" launcher in Ubuntu Touch main menu. Try hitting the "Super-key" (sometimes this key has four windows left of the space bar, sometimes it can have an apple design or command key) on your external wired PS-2 keyboard (or wireless keyboard) and type firef which should be enough to make Firefox launcher visible. 2b: Adjusting firefox.desktop inside Libertine container Adjusting Libertine container firefox.desktop located at /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop could be done manually with terminal command: nano ~/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop You may also install mousepad in the Libertine container to get a graphical editor. However, copy-paste does not seem to work between windows. There are four lines starting with Exec=: Exec=firefox %u Exec=firefox --new-window %u Exec=firefox --private-window %u Exec=firefox --ProfileManager These four lines starting with Exec= need to be adjusted to something like: Exec=bash -c "GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox %u" Exec=bash -c "GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox --new-window %u" Exec=bash -c "GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox --private-window %u" Exec=bash -c 'GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox --ProfileManager' This could be accomplished with using terminal command sed: sed -i "s|^Exec=firefox %u$|Exec=bash -c \"GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox %u\"|g" /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop sed -i "s|^Exec=firefox --new-window %u$|Exec=bash -c \"GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox --new-window %u\"|g" /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop sed -i "s|^Exec=firefox --private-window %u$|Exec=bash -c \"GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox --private-window %u\"|g" /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop sed -i "s|^Exec=firefox --ProfileManager$|Exec=bash -c 'GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6 GDK_BACKEND=x11 firefox --ProfileManager'|g" /home/phablet/.cache/libertine-container/noble/rootfs/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop Change the scaling factor GDK_DPI_SCALE to suit your eyes. Note that on my Fairphone 4 on channel 24.04/daily it seems to require a scaling factor less than 1.0 inside the Libertine container to scale things down. From outside the container, a scaling factor larger than 1.0 had to be used to scale things up. Testing If all went well, you should now be able to set up Firefox with any extensions you prefer. Sample of extensions that seem to do what they are supposed to do to a great extent: uBlock Origin NoScript Privacy Badger Cookie Autodelete I still don't care about cookies Video DownloadHelper (not possible to select other video format than default). Remark: When opening a downloaded media clip with Thunar file manager, Lomiri crashed and closed all open apps. Observations The mouse pointer becomes huge when hovering Firefox. There should be a way to make the mouse pointer smaller. Copy-paste does not work well. Not possible to copy and paste from Firefox to mousepad nor into nano. Clipboard looks full at the beginning and clicking on paste greys out clipboard while nothing is pasted. https://duck.ai works (does not seem to work properly in Morph browser). However, you cannot copy-paste the answers. Having Firefox browser open with several tabs at the same time uses 3.7Gi RAM memory, reports terminal command free -h.

@pparent I m not sure. it is juste a feeling for the moment. I wan't to test it more.

@tacetion so is it up and running with UT? A prototype is well worth keeping, collectors may seek something like that out..... It could also have had a screen replacement...

@projectmoon said in Call for testing: calendar-app: @lduboeuf said in Call for testing: calendar-app: @projectmoon said in Call for testing: calendar-app: @lduboeuf So unfortunately, calendar sync is still broken. The calendar that was syncing (connection to Nextcloud via generic caldav instead of built-in Nextcloud integration) is no longer syncing. Only thing I see in Evolution logs is something about i_cal_time_compare < 0 failed. I turned the Nextcloud integration itself back on for Calendar, and that synced fine... But I don't know if it will sync more later. Sorry, i don't understand, you mean it works or not ? Please also precise on which OS version are you . The sync can be sometimes unstable ( and it always has been). It is sometimes needed to recreate all accounts ( remove them all, reboot, recreate them) Stable 1.2, and the accounts were previously already cleared and removed from Evolution. Re-re-(re?)-creating the accounts shouldn't be necessary, I would hope. What I mean is that the Generic CalDAV Account seemed to stop syncing. But when I re-enabled the Nextcloud Account, that synced fine. I have two Online Accounts set up on the phone. Both point to my Nextcloud instance. Just one is the "proper" Nextcloud Online Account and the other is Generic CalDAV. Yes, there are reports where sometimes it happens and we don't know what is happening. Only by removing the account, then rebooting, then re-creating it fixed the issue. The new backend is more stable regarding that, but not here yet.

@PringleMingle If you loved your Op3, try finding a used Op5 or 5t! Very good device, and very close to what you are used to... except this one runs the latest version of Ubuntu Touch. And nowadays they can be had for a song.

@uxes Yes, all joyeuse_global_images_V12.0.X.0.QJZMIXM from 1 to 4 are OK